If You’ve Ever Voted, or Considered Voting, for a Clinton, Then I Don’t Want to Hear You Moan About Trump

“Democracy is the principle that the common man knows what he wants and deserves to get it — Good and hard.” -H.L. Mencken Don’t believe the hysterics on Twitter. I predict that fully 70% of the soap-boxers re-tweeting #NeverTrump like they’re changing the world are going to come around. They have to: they care too… Read More If You’ve Ever Voted, or Considered Voting, for a Clinton, Then I Don’t Want to Hear You Moan About Trump

16 Mar 201622 Mar 2016 Andrew2 Comments

Because I Need More Things to Do, I’ve Now Put Out a Literary Journal

On the Flipboard. I call it Things to Read. In this issue: Victor Davis Hanson’s “An American Satyricon” Robert Stacy McCain’s “The Columbia Journalism Review is (Still) Decadent and Depraved” Jessica Khoury’s “Is It Science Fiction” An excerpt from Jordan Belfort’s Memoir, “The Wolf of Wall Street” And much much more (well, more anyway)!

16 Jan 2014 AndrewLeave a comment

Welcome to Imperial Rome

Victor Davis Hanson calls out the steps, and our progressive New Class masters dance to them: Sometime in the mid-first century a.d., an otherwise little known consular official, Gaius Petronius, wrote a brilliant satirical novel about the gross and pretentious new Roman-imperial elite. The Satyricon is an often-cruel parody about how the Roman agrarian republic… Read More Welcome to Imperial Rome

29 Aug 2013 AndrewLeave a comment

Why You Should Read the Classics

Victor Davis Hanson reminds us that nothing is new under the sun, and the old books remind us that we’ve been here before. (via Ace) We can learn from classics that most of us are more likely to resent superiority than to reward it, to distrust talent than to develop it. With classical training, our… Read More Why You Should Read the Classics

2 May 2013 Andrew2 Comments

Shred Party

I am elbow-deep in a task that’s been building for months: the re-org of my home office. So I shan’t have anything satisfying to read hear today. Fortunately, Victor Davis Hanson has plenty: Two parties, left and right, are central to good consensual government — one the perennial check on the other, both within the… Read More Shred Party

11 Jun 2012 AndrewLeave a comment